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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 2:03:47 Ben Gilbert It was a joint robotics and computer animation conference, and I remember when I was a kid, he just told me, I think it was when we were seeing Toy Story,
- ▶ 2:06:06 Ben Gilbert Toy Story.
- ▶ 2:06:07 David Rosenthal And this is how Toy Story happens.
- ▶ 2:10:55 Ben Gilbert And there's all this great footage on YouTube of, in 1992, the guy who was animating Woody sort of going through motions, or for the army men to figure out how the army men were gonna move in Toy Story, they duct taped ski boots to a s,…
- ▶ 2:13:43 Ben Gilbert Alright, so back to Toy Story.
- ▶ 2:14:38 David Rosenthal Oh, by the way, Disney keeps all of the intellectual property rights to Toy Story.
- ▶ 2:18:19 David Rosenthal Being Steve starts thinking through this and realizes if Toy Story is a hit, what's going to happen?
- ▶ 2:19:33 Ben Gilbert So I think we should go public the week after Toy Story comes out.
- ▶ 2:19:56 David Rosenthal So, Toy Story comes out on November 2219 95, grosses nearly four hundred million dollars worldwide.
- ▶ 2:20:30 David Rosenthal So one week later, after Toy Story premieres, on November 2919 95,
- ▶ 2:20:37 Ben Gilbert Right, which means Steve had been, like, flying around doing a road show, meeting with all these investment bankers as Toy Story is finishing production and getting ready to go out.
- ▶ 2:21:02 David Rosenthal At a one and a half billion dollar market cap, this is how big a hit Toy Story was and how much it was in the public consciousness.
- ▶ 2:21:15 David Rosenthal The Toy Story IPO.
- ▶ 2:21:20 David Rosenthal Toy Story and Pixar is how Steve Jobs makes his fortune.
- ▶ 2:22:00 Ben Gilbert I mean, if Toy Story didn't work, then the IPO wasn't gonna work, and then the whole thing would go bust.
- ▶ 2:22:48 Ben Gilbert So after Toy Story, Disney would have the right then to make five more movies with Pixar in addition to sequels.
- ▶ 2:44:51 Ben Gilbert Toy Story alone did over four billion at the box office, which means one and a half to two billion to Disney.
- ▶ 2:45:01 Ben Gilbert Lifetime of all Toy Story consumer goods.
- ▶ 2:45:36 David Rosenthal From Toy Story One and Toy Story Two.
- ▶ 2:45:39 Ben Gilbert So you get at least half, probably two-thirds the purchase price back from the Toy Story franchise alone, even without all of that ancillary sort of flywheel revenue.
- ▶ 4:11:04 Ben Gilbert What, what's the Lion King of tomorrow, or the Toy Story of tomorrow, or the Avengers of tomorrow?
The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:57 Ben Gilbert I'm a huge Star Wars nerd, and my wall was plastered with Toy Story posters growing up, but somehow I knew nothing about the company's
- ▶ 3:29:25 Ben Gilbert A lot of Toy Story this week at my house.
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:41:04 Ben Gilbert The last one is the movie Toy Story.
- ▶ 2:41:13 Ben Gilbert He calls it Tapo Head, and so he always runs into the room and says, Tapo Head TV, and that means I want to watch Toy Story.